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AFO Fight in Mansfield

The American Fighting League brings MMA to Mansfield

Here's a few quick summeries from the Friday matches.

Luis Felix brought his record to 7-6 and kept the lightweight title against challenger Dyrell Walker when the referee stopped the fight at the advice of a doctor at the end of the second round. Walker did not want to stop, but his injuries were too extensive to continue.

Lionel Young beat Ruben Ray for the featherweight championship title in only 42 seconds into the first round by a choke-out. 

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Shawn Baker defeated Glen Reeves in the first round with a rear naked choke submission after 46 seconds. Javier Velasquez took the AFO Heavyweight title. They went the full three rounds, and Velasquez was deemed the victor by judges by a score of 30 to 27.

Rico Disciullo beat Kin Moy in the first round. After only 2:22, Disciullo managed to land a ground shaking punch while Moy was on the ground. Disciullo won by technical knock out.

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Jared Sarno beat Shane DeCristoforo after three rounds, but only just. Sarno was nearly choked out in the second round, and would have passed out if held in the head lock for a few seconds longer. He manged to wiggle free of the lock and stay up for the remainder of the round. Sarno fought back in the next round to get the win by points from the judges.

Joe Cloutier won by submission at about two minutes into the first round against John Duclaw for the 185 lb. title. Ricardo Georges beat Jeff Bermani with a technical knock out in the first six seconds of the second round to take the AFO welterweight title.

Thane Stimson beat Nate Andrews in the first round after two minutes and nine seconds by way of a rear naked choke-out. Andrews had a chance, but an early body slam appeared to stun him and he did not recover.

Rob Font beat Andre Soukhamthath in judge’s scoring after three rounds. There was a lot of punch trading going on, and Soukhamthath tried to grapple Font down to the ground several times, but Font managed to fight his way out of it most times.


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